Higher Education

This position entails working as a research assistant for a study that investigates the processing of non-standard grammatical constructions in speakers of British English using eye-tracking while reading. The project is led by Eloi Puig-Mayenco from the School of Education, Communication, and Society at King?s College London.

The primary responsibilities of the research assistant will involve overseeing participant recruitment and conducting on-site eye-tracking data collection sessions at the Waterloo Bridge Wing building, located on the Waterloo campus. Additionally, the RA will handle initial data trimming and processing. The breakdown of allocated hours for each task is as follows:

15 hours for preparation, training, and meetings.

40 hours for testing: accommodating 40 participants with sessions lasting 1 hours each.

5 hours for data processing.

The research assistant will receive comprehensive training and mentoring to successfully carry out these responsibilities.

Interviews will take place mid-January.

BA/MA in Linguistics, Psychology or related discipline. 

Essential:

Familiarity and ability to use Microsoft packages (e.g., good Excel command).

Undergraduate level knowledge in linguistics, psychology and/or education research or related field.

Desirable:

Interest in eye-tracking methodologies.

Experience with statistical analysis applied to language-related research.

This position entails working as a research assistant for a study that investigates the development of Catalan as a heritage language in the United Kingdom. The project is led by Eloi Puig-Mayenco from the School of Education, Communication, and Society at King?s College London.

The primary responsibilities of the research assistant will involve overseeing participant recruitment and conducting remote participant in two testing sessions in a battery of tasks (assessment of receptive vocabulary, production of specific syntactic structures and elicitation of spontaneous production data). Additionally, the RA will handle initial data trimming and processing. The breakdown of allocated hours for each task is as follows:

1. 30 hours for preparation, training, and finalizing materials.

2. 100 hours for testing: accommodating 40 participants in two sessions lasting 1 hour each hours, alongside organization of the data from testing sessions for 30 minutes. In total, the RA will spend 2.5 hour per participant.

3. 20 hours for initial data trimming.

The research assistant will receive comprehensive training and mentoring to successfully carry out these responsibilities.

Interviews will take place mid-January.

BA/MA in Linguistics, Education, Psychology or related discipline. 

Essential:

Familiarity and ability to use Microsoft packages (e.g., good Excel command)

Undergraduate level knowledge in linguistics, psychology and/or education research or related field

Excellent working proficiency in both Catalan and English

DBS certificate 

Desirable:

Experience working with children

Good organisational skills

Social awareness and good communication skills

Experience in research methodologies

To support research into the views of stakeholders related to the gender balance in their fields. Whilst research has focused on the under-representation of girls in some STEM subjects (e.g., physics and computing) boys are under-represented in school and higher education STEM subjects with a caring aspect (e.g. nursing, medicine, psychology, veterinary studies). To support an application to the Nuffield foundation, the views of stake holders (members of professional bodies, and university admissions officers) will be interviewed to determine their views on the gender imbalances in the field. The research assistant will prepare materials for interviews, conduct interviews, perform analysis of data and contribute to the writing of papers on the data.

A PhD.

Essential:

Knowledge of research into gender inequality in STEM education.

Experience of conducting semi-structured interviews.

Experience of the analysis of interview data.

Experience of writing papers related to gender inequality in STEM education.

Desirable:

Experience of preparing materials for semi-structured interviews.

The post-holder will be part of the Mental Health Support Team and part of our university?s multi-disciplinary Counselling & Mental Health Support Team and will have experience and current accreditation as a Mental Health Nurse, Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner or other qualified mental health practitioner.

The post-holder will possess specialist knowledge of issues related to student mental health, including the assessment and management of risk, mental health assessment, crisis management, and external referral of cases (into external crisis services, etc.).  The post-holder will liaise with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders to ensure the university responds effectively to the mental health needs of students. They will work closely with the other two sub-teams that make up the Counselling & Mental Health Support Team (the Counselling and the Outreach & Training Sub-Teams) to ensure the appropriate referral of cases and an effective multi-disciplinary approach to all aspects of clinical work.

Key responsibilities

To provide confidential mental health support to students registered with the Counselling and Mental Health Support Service and to students referred to the Student of Concern Service and presenting with mental health difficulties and/or risk to self.

To carry out assessments including risk assessment & management for students self-referred to Counselling and referred via the Student of Concern process. Although ?Student of Concern? is not a crisis service, a high proportion of referred students indicate that they are at risk to self, and so the post holder will be expected to following service risk protocols and signpost students to appropriate services and escalate any student to crisis services if the need arises.

To offer short-term psychological interventions to students whose difficulties can be managed by low intensity and self-help oriented work and offer mental health support/advice/signposting to students who may be in distress or presenting with mental health risk to self or others.

Working at least one or two days/week triaging and manage ?Student of Concern? referrals.

To work with colleagues within Counselling and Mental Health Support Team and Student Services to support students with mental health conditions, including linking with internal and external organisations.

To act as an advocate for students in negotiating time out/moving to alternative modes of studies. To be responsible for providing an informed opinion and/or verifying students? mitigating circumstances and to support students in requesting extensions for completing work/providing supporting statements for students in academic appeals.

To keep accurate and up-to-date client case notes ensuring that they are compliant with the data protection act. To maintain therapeutic boundaries at all times.

To comply with relevant legislation and regulations, including, for example, our duty of care, safeguarding legislation, data protection legislation (including the General Data Protection Regulation), equality legislation, and health and safety legislation.

Professional qualification and current regsitration in the field of mental health nursing, psychological wellbeing practitioner or other qualified mental health practitioner

Knowledge / skills

1. Expert knowledge and skills of undertaking mental health and risk assessment and management, including standardized assessment protocols and relevant clinical outcome measures (such as COREnet)
2. Expert knowledge of the mental health issues and support needs of students and/or young adults 
3. Ability to manage relationships sensitively with distressed clients and tolerate and manage high levels of distress and risk
4. Excellent IT and administration skills, including administrative self-sufficiency (e.g. diary management, letter writing, etc.)

Experience

1. Experience of managing a large complex caseload of clients presenting with a wide range of mental health difficulties
2. Experience of referring cases into NHS and voluntary sector bodies, and working closely with such services on complex cases
3. Experience of balancing the need to share information appropriately to ensure the effective management of risk with the need for confidentiality and data protection legislation compliance
4. Experience of supporting others to maintain effective appropriate boundaries in their work

Personal characteristics/other requirements

1. Strong organizational skills and ability to work with multiple processes and systems
2. Strong advocate and promoter of equality, diversity and inclusion for students with mental health difficulties

Desirable criteria

1. Understanding of the issues that students face in Higher Education and the types of support/advice that students require beyond mental health support
2. Knowledge of legislation relating to mental health
3. Experience of delivering training, presentations and/or group-work

Working with the Director of HR Operations, Head of Contingent Workforce and Procurement Directorate, this role will be responsible for sourcing, collecting, organising, analysing and interrogating all recruitment related spend category data. Findings will be reconciled to recruitment outcomes so that the spend can be attributed to contingent worker salaries and fees, agency placement fees and advertising related recruitment costs, with the overall aim to reduce spend on non-permanent agency costs. All data and analysis to be the presented and translated into information and insight that meets the needs of various stakeholders across the university and will contribute to a drive to reduce overall costs.  

This is a hybrid position, you will be expected to work in the office 2 days per week. 

None

The job holder will source and gather data from known/standard sources - manipulating routine data so it can be interpreted by others. They may be required to select the most appropriate procedure, technique or approach to conduct analysis and research, deciding how to undertake the work as well as analysing, identifying, and interpreting trends. The job holder will be expected to have excellent understanding of specialist tools to extract the data needed as well as an advanced knowledge of Excel, Power BI, Tableau etc. 

•  Work with HR and Procurement teams to investigate and identify all agency and advertising recruitment spend using a variety of systems and platforms. 
• Work with the Recruitment advisers to ascertain the actual status and outcome of all current vacancies.  
• Collaboratively work with internal and external stakeholders to investigate and review the data required to complete the objective of reducing agency spend within Kings for non-permanent staff. 
• Identify activity data for each vacancy advertisement, including views, impressions, applications, shortlisted candidates, and placements, to ascertain value for money and inform future decisions. 
• Produce visualisations and reports (using tools like Tableau, Power BI, and SQL) and present findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders in a clear, actionable manner showing usage data and trends to inform future sourcing and hiring decisions.  
• Create data dashboards, graphs and visualisations 
• Work with the recruitment team to incorporate data capture and analysis.  
• Support Manager with data analysis for all activity with all external providers. 

The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post. 

Essential criteria 

​Experience using PowerBI for data analysis and reporting   

​Strong technical skills in data analysis, optimisation, and dashboard creation.  

​Strong analytical skills, with the ability to interpret and synthesise large data sets.  

​Experience of collaboratively working with internal and external stakeholders. 

​Excellent communication and problem-solving abilities.  

​Problem-solving skills with the ability to troubleshoot data issues and improve reporting processes.  

​Strong attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy. 

​Desirable criteria 

​Experience in the higher education sector or a similar environment.  

​Experience working with other data visualisation tools and methodologies. 

Background 

The Sustainable Research Team and Biosciences Education Team have received funding from Education for Sustainability team to work together to develop resources to embed sustainability into the bioscience's undergraduate curricula.  

As scientific researchers, we have an ethical responsibility to reduce the environmental impact of our work. Laboratories consume between three and ten times more energy per square foot than office spaces, and biological and medical research contributes significantly to global plastic waste. Current bioscience students at King's College London (KCL) receive minimal exposure to sustainable practices in labs until they progress to further studies or work. Integrating sustainability concepts into the curriculum from the start will equip students with essential skills, preparing them to incorporate sustainable approaches in their future research. 

Part of this fund is allocated to hire TWO Sustainability Research Assistants to help perform the key tasks of the project during 4 hours a week. Please ensure you have your supervisor's support to take part in this project as the working hours will typically be Monday-Friday 9-6pm.  

Responsibilities  

Conduct a systematic review of sustainability teaching in the biosciences and similar fields to understand existing content and research.  

Utilising this review, conduct surveys and focus groups with undergraduate biosciences students to identify learning gaps in sustainability and preferences for delivery of content.  

Analyse survey responses and make suggestions for learning outcomes and delivery methods of new sustainability content in the bioscience curricula.  

Organise and host an away day bringing together module and programme leads, technical staff and other stakeholders involved in the biosciences courses to understand where to place new content, and analysing outcomes from the day.  

Develop initial resources for content in years 1, 2, and 3 and gather feedback from students on content and delivery proposals.  

Organise and host a final workshop with academic and technical staff to demonstrate use of new resources.  

Coordinating with project lead- Sustainability Innovation Lead (Research) Dr Marcelo Salierno  

An undergraduate degree in a wet laboratory-based science.  

You will have..... 

Knowledge  

Essential: Bioscience and laboratory skills including understanding of contamination, waste  

Desirable: Knowledge of sustainable science or the LEAF programme, including knowledge of using resources efficiently including equipment and consumables, water and energy use.    

Experience  

Essential: Demonstrating experience or lecture experience in bioscience or chemistry lab practicals 

Essential: Experience performing literature searches.   

Skills  

Essential: Able to use their initiative and work independently  

Essential: Able to work to tight deadlines as this project is only funded for 6 months.   

Desirable: Writing qualitative surveys